Tag Archives: 1958

Matt Weinstock

Posted on March 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 20, 1958 Perhaps you, too, have caught the lilting language of the missile experts. To them a satellite or a missile is "the hardware." It is said to be propelled by an "exotic" fuel. Already such terminology is having … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on March 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 20, 1958 Barbara Ridley is 25. She’s the mother of four sons, ages 6, 4, 3 and 1. She’s also part of the unpleasant headlines you’ve been reading this week. She’s the wife of 36-year-old James Vernon Ridley, who … Continue reading →

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March 20, 1958

Posted on March 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, more layoffs, this time in Los Angeles’ auto assembly plants in South Gate, Van Nuys and Maywood, recall the recurring theme of unemployment in recent columns by Matt Weinstock and Paul Coates. Below, the Navy discovers that a mystery … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on March 19, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 19, 1958 Books never grow old for me. Somehow, I rarely find time to read them when they come out but months or years later I find them on the shelves and they are as fresh as if newly … Continue reading →

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March 19, 1958

Posted on March 19, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, a look at the making of "The Defiant Ones." Below, we drop the masthead to run a terrific horizontal shot as a test pilot who bailed out of an F-4D  Skyray is rescued from the ocean  … President Eisenhower … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on March 18, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 18, 1958 Yesterday I told about a man sent out by this office to visit a few of the hundreds of persons in Southern California who represent themselves as "income tax experts." We gave him the name of Victor … Continue reading →

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March 18, 1958

Posted on March 18, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, one of Clark Gable’s lesser pictures is featured at a fund-raiser for the Press Club’s 8-Ball Foundation. When the Mirror and Examiner closed in 1962, the foundation held a benefit to raise money for unemployed journalists. Below, a plane … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on March 17, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 17, 1958 One morning recently a man found a wallet on West 7th Street and tried to phone the owner, a woman whose name and address were on the enclosed identification cards. Failing to get a response, he handed … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on March 17, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 17, 1958 Victor Romano is a mythical man. He’s a man invented by this column and impersonated by one of my staff. We gave him an occupation: Insurance salesman; a wife, Mary; a child, and a family income last … Continue reading →

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March 17, 1958

Posted on March 17, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, the brainstorm of John Pace, general manager of KABC-AM (790), "Airwatch" was announced Dec. 30, 1957. Below, Times writer Walter Ames goes along with Max Schumacher and Donn Reed for a jaunt above Los Angeles’ freeways. Quote of the … Continue reading →

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March 16, 1958

Posted on March 16, 2008 by lmharnisch

Frances Farmer is interviewed by The Times’ Cecil Smith upon her return to acting in "The Tongues of Angels," a "Studio One" production. Farmer, whose life imploded in the 1940s, says: "I’m better now at my work than I have … Continue reading →

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March 15, 1958

Posted on March 15, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, integration in the Los Angeles City Fire Department is not going well  …  Below, the Coast Guard inspects ships in California’s ports on the theory that 50 men with suitcases could smuggle a terrorist weapon into the country (Gosh, … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on March 14, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 14, 1958 Timothy Patrick O’Regan will wear a green tie Monday and perhaps take a token drink of Irish whisky. But he plans to be very wary. On account of what happened that time in San Francisco. Wearing his … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on March 14, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 14, 1958 There are days when it doesn’t pay to be a peaceful, sleepy, slightly overgrown little community. And one of those days came this week. It came at the weekly session of the elected county Board of Supervisors. … Continue reading →

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Missing woman

Posted on March 14, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 13-16, 1958Los Angeles She was 24, lived with her mother out in Sun Valley and had two children from a marriage that ended in divorce three years earlier. Her name was Shirley. According to her mother, Alice Jolliffe, she … Continue reading →

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March 13, 1958

Posted on March 13, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, what has to be the quote of the day: "Two things are at stake for America in the Middle East … Arab oil and Arab friendship. Both depend upon understanding. You can afford to lose the oil. You cannot … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on March 12, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 12, 1958 More people than usual are collecting their unemployment insurance and inevitably new pressures are added to a transaction that is always difficult–handing out public money. And so complaints are reverberating. A woman who worked steadily for four … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on March 12, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 12, 1958 The fact that I detest the tactics of some car repossession outfits has nothing to do with why this story appeals to me. It’s just that I’ve always been a pushover for a tale which blends a … Continue reading →

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Body dumped

Posted on March 12, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 4-May 7, 1958 Riverside A couple of Pinal County deputies found the new Fiat, wrecked and abandoned in Florence, Ariz., with a bloodstain in the backseat and a charge slip dated the previous day from a gas station in … Continue reading →

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March 12, 1958

Posted on March 12, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, a cook goes on a bloody rampage–and no, we didn’t follow up on this story. According to California death records, mad cook Andrew Rewal lived to the age of 79, presumably without access to sharp objects  … Below, the … Continue reading →

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